Dipl. Inform Sönke Marahrens, MPA; MMFIS (Colonel (GS)) is a Branchhead at the German Centre for Digitization of the Armed Forces in Bonn, Germany.
From 2021 to 2024 he was the Director Community of Interest Strategy & Defence European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki, Finland. From 2018 to 2021 he was the Senior Research Lead for Strategy and Armed Forces at the then newly established German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies in Hamburg.
By training, he is a German Air Force NATO Air Defence Officer with different leadership and managerial positions incl. Defence Planning Office and German MOD as well as Battalion Commander. His deployments include Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (HQ RS, 2020).
His fields of expertise are Hybrid Threats and Warfare, Aspects of Leadership in the 21st Century, modern forms of conflict, Military Strategy, military conflict theory, Hybrid Warfare, Cyber, Artificial Intelligence for the Military and the Art and History of wargaming.
He holds a Diploma in Computer Science of University of the Armed Forces in Munich, a MPA from the Royal Military College in Canada, a Master’s in military leadership and International Security Politics from the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, and an Executive Business Master from CASD, Rome, Italy.